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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
. This is totally tame compared to municipal politics in the US and elsewhere. It is because we do not have a slate or party system at the municipal level in this city (which we need).
Every sitting alderman is constantly in fund raising mode and looks to the development and home building industry for large annual donations.
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So we're lucky that we don't have a U.S. style municipal government system...so let's go ahead and implement a U.S. style municipal government system.